"US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon-Sucking Vacuums: A Risky Bet?"
The US Department of Energy plans to invest up to $1.2 billion in two Direct Air Capture (DAC) facilities in Texas and Louisiana to remove carbon dioxide from the air. Each site will have carbon-sucking vacuums capable of eliminating up to one million tons of CO2 annually, equivalent to the emissions of 445,000 gas-powered cars. The technology, which uses chemical reactions to remove CO2, is relatively untested and needs to become cheaper to be deployed at the scale required. The United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considers direct air capture as a necessary method to combat global warming.